Bob Terwilliger wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> cshenk wrote:
>
> > Correct. I had to deal with lazy 'employees' at times myself and
> > it's frustrating as hell. Navy retired Senior Chief and some
> > sailors were just there to get a paycheck. Getting them to do
> > anything like cleaning the ship was so painful it would have been
> > easier to do it myself, but that doesnt work in the long run.
>
> But God forbid you write a bad eval about them; it won't make it up
> the "touchy-feely" chain. Even if they're criminals facing a BCD or
> DD.
>
> Bob

That's not totally true. I can see why it may seem so, but I've
written many a 'bad boy' eval backed with counseling sheets the members
'refused to sign'.

I've vied with other Chiefs in ranking boards for the bottom spot on
the true non-performers. 58 of 58 in ranking really says something.

I've been on the other end of it too. A young man came to my shop as
an IT and an E6 because they closed his rate and he was converted. He
was not offered training and he had the 'Chief from Hell'. This guy
was the '14th of 14' in his evals. I sat him down for a frank
discussion. He was a new E6 who had never been afforded a chance to
lead. He'd made rank fast and that can happen. Someone who had made
it before him always blocked that slot.

He had orders to a ship in a few months. I contacted the Chief there
and we arranged for him to get the basic training school for the rate
enroute, then set to work. He needed a chance to learn and prove
himself. He was not lazy. He took on a task of incredible worth for
the whole ship. He took my 2 least worthwile lazy assed E3's and a
storeroom about 100ft by 40ft with 47 steel knoppers of 1.5 inch tall
and no AC and truely crappy lagging that had to be completely ripped
out including in a 35ft ceiling set.

He got AC added in a ship alteration. He got guys on 'extra duty' (in
trouble) *requesting* to work for him and help hand grind out the steel
knoppers. He fixed my 2 bum sailors. He refixed that room in 6 weeks
to be the main meeting room for the ship for all our big needs of 100
or more people.

Grin, I passed everything to his new Chief and fought really hard to
get him a 1 of 58 eval, but he got a 9 of 58 as he left the ship. He
made Chief 2 years later and I saw he made Senior Chief.


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